சனி, 5 ஏப்ரல், 2014

Genocidal Sri Lanka declares war on Tamil Diaspora

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 April 2014, 16:09 GMT]
Issuing an extra-ordinary gazette notification and citing a UN Security Council Resolution (1373), the genocical State of Sri Lanka on Friday officially proscribed 16 Tamil groups and 424 Eezham Tamil individuals, most of them foreign citizens settled in the Western countries. The 16 organisations range from the LTTE to democratically elected diaspora bodies. Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris has justified the ‘proscriptions’ by signing the United Nations Security Council Resolution of 2001, especially after the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka was passed in Geneva last week. Indian writers allegedly working for the Indian Intelligence have also been attacking the diaspora in the recent days raising suspicions whether the current move of Colombo is in partnership with New Delhi, Tamil political observers in the diaspora said.

“This order is based on the recommendation by the Secretary, Ministry of Defence and Urban Development, as the Competent Authority regarding the identification of persons, groups and entities, believed on reasonable grounds to be committing, attempting to commit, facilitating or participating, in the commission of acts of terrorism,” a news release by the SL external affairs ministry said on Wednesday.

Extraordinary Gazette notification by the SL State (854/41)

The latest ‘proscription’ by the SL State has only strengthened the draconian practice of the Prevention of Terrorism Act and the 6th Amendment, adding a UN seal to it in threatening the Tamil Diaspora activists from voicing for their political aspiration. The inclusion of 424 individuals in the list seems to be an attempt to threaten the private and family interests of the individuals on a political ground.

In other words, the latest threat has strengthened the further justified the Tamil perspective on Tamil sovereignty, the diaspora political observers said.

As far as the Eezham Tamils are concerned, the unitary Constitution of the so-called ‘Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka’ is something that was not endorsed by them.

Although the Eezham Tamils have been rejecting all the unitary constitutions since British times, the republican constitution was outrightly and democratically rejected by them since its inception in 1972.

The Tamil position has always been that the nation of Eezham Tamils never surrendered its sovereignty to the unitary State. After Eezham Tamils lost their sovereignty at the hands of European colonialists, it was never returned to them.

The SL State in 1978 introduced the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and made it permanent in 1982.

Also denying the Tamils to express their political aspiration under the illegal Sri Lankan Constitution, the SL State imposed 6th Amendment in 1983.

Under this SL Act's Article 157 A (1), “No person shall, directly or indirectly, in or outside Sri Lanka, support, espouse, promote, finance, encourage or advocate the establishment of a separate state within the territory of Sri Lanka.”

The Sixth Amendment was introduced on the heels of the 1983 July anti Tamil pogrom in which thousands of Tamils were killed and maimed by state backed Sinhala mobs in Colombo and the Sinhala majority districts of the island. The Amendment saw the Tamil United Liberation Front giving up its seats in the SL Parliament and going into exile in India. The TULF was elected to Parliament in 1977 from the on an overwhelming mandate from the Eezham Tamils for establishing an independent State in the North and East of the island.

Under Sri Lanka's 6th Amendment, - 157 A (4) -“ any person may make an application to the Supreme Court for a declaration against an organisation espousing the cause of establishing a separate state in the island. Upon such declaration by the SC that the organisation has violated Article 157 A (2), then that organisation “shall be deemed, for all purposes to be proscribed”. Any member of such an organisation shall cease to be a member of Parliament. Any person who is a member of such an organisation after the date of the SC declaration “shall be guilty of an offence and shall, upon conviction by the Court of Appeal” would be stripped of his or her civic rights for a period not exceeding seven years; and his or her movable and immovable property would be seized.”

Chronology:

04.04.14 Genocidal Sri Lanka declares war on Tamil Diaspora

05.04.13 5,000 Tamils marching in London reject LLRC, deman..

28.04.10 Diaspora paramount in voicing aspirations of Tamil..

22.04.10 99.4 percent vote for Tamil Eelam in Australia

19.04.10 Australian Tamil referendum attracts media, provok..

16.04.10 Remandating VR, a unique opportunity to address Au..

08.04.10 Self-organised democracy of Tamils receives global..

23.03.10 Italian Eezham Tamils conduct referendum, form cou..

19.03.10 Real war is just beginning, get involved: Brian Se..

28.02.10 Denmark silences detractors of Tamil referendum

26.02.10 Denmark goes for Tamil referendum Sunday

01.02.10 Eelam is the way for long-term success in politica..

01.02.10 Overwhelming Tamil response in referendum hit Brit..

01.02.10 Self-polls of Tamils make contrast to State-polls ..

01.02.10 Largest possible turnout, 99.33 percent British Ta..

31.01.10 Tamils undisputed champions of diaspora politics: ..

31.01.10 Voting continues in British Tamil Eelam referendum

31.01.10 Mother country means Tamil Eelam for 90-year-old S..

31.01.10 First day of British Referendum draws to a close

30.01.10 Brisk early voting in UK referendum

29.01.10 British Politicians express support to Tamil refer..

29.01.10 UK referendum committee releases poll-procedure ha..

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25.01.10 99.2 percent voters consent Tamil Eelam in Holland

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19.12.09 Referendum deciding identity

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Colombo’s Defence bares its colonial attitude towards Eezham Tamils

[TamilNet, Friday, 04 April 2014, 07:02 GMT]
Genocidal Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence (MOD) on Monday cited British government appointing General Peter Cosgrove as the Governor General of Australia, and has questioned why there is a big qualm about Colombo having a Military Governor in the North. By bringing in the parallel, the Colombo Establishment concedes that it is occupying and ruling the Tamil land as a colony with an attitude that has been inherited by the Sinhala State from the European colonialism of the Portuguese, the Dutch and the English, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island.

In a story titled “If UK can appoint a Military officer to be Governor of Australia why can't Sri Lanka appoint a military Governor?”, the Colombo MOD article went on to state that “[t]he racism shown against General Chandrasiri by UK and the West is totally uncalled for. Such type of racist sentiments need to stop.”

The SL Defence article was comparing the appointment of a former military chief General Peter Cosgrove as the Governor General for Australia and its appointment of Major General G.A. Chandrasiri, a war-crimes accused commander of the genocidal military as the Governor of the Northern Province.

“In this instance the UK has appointed a retired general who was Australia's defence chief in 2005 and commanded the International Peace Keeping force in East Timor and had also been a platoon commander in Vietnam,” the article said adding: “Maj. Gen. Chandrasiri was appointed as Governor Northern Province in 2010 by the Government of Sri Lanka. There is no person who knows the terrain of North Sri Lanka than General Chandrasiri [...]”.

Since 2006, Rear Admiral (retd) Mohan Wijewickrama has been the Governor for Eastern Province.

The Queen of England appointing British Governor Generals to Australia, Canada and New Zealand is a surviving legacy of British colonialism, which is entirely ceremonial at present.

Genocidal Sri Lanka's military governors in the North and East, occupied by Colombo's military, is not a comparison, Tamil activists said.

“However, the Colombo's Defence bringing in such a comparison shows that with what attitude they look at the nation of Eezham Tamils in the island,” an activist in Jaffna further commented.

Screenshot of SL Defence Story on 31 March 2014

Screenshot of SL Defence Story on 28 March 2014

வெள்ளி, 4 ஏப்ரல், 2014

தமிழ் எழுத்தொலிகளுக்கான ஆங்கில ஒலி பெயர்ப்பு வரையறை - கலந்துரையாடல்

தமிழ் எழுத்தொலிகளுக்கான ஆங்கில ஒலி பெயர்ப்பு வரையறை - கலந்துரையாடல்

People of Keappapulavu demand Gotabhaya to hand over their lands

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 April 2014, 17:41 GMT]
Appropriating 2,500 acres of lands belonging to Eezham Tamils in Keappaa-pulavu near Nanthik-kadal lagoon in Mullaiththeevu district, and transforming the area into a Sinhala Military Zone, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the SL presidential sibling and the defence secretary of Sri Lanka attempted to cut an image on Thursday as if he was returning the lands back to the people by freeing 100 acres to 29 families at the border towards Sooriyapuram, where the uprooted people have been forcefully ‘resettled’. 223 families, who have been refused access to their lands, made a bold move of handing over an appeal to Gotabhaya Rajapaksa demanding their lands back.

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was visiting Keappa-puluavu area on Thursday to inspect the militarisation project and to project an image that the SL military was providing a housing scheme to the uprooted people of Keappaa-pulavu.

The occupying SL military has appropriated more than 2,400 acres of fertile lands surrounding the former LTTE air strip, creating a Sinhala Military Zone by creating a large cantonment housing also the families of the Sri Lankan air force personnel and other military personnel.

The latest move of forcing people of Keappapulavu into a jungle pocket comes after the USA and UK dropped the ‘de-militarisation’ demand in the resolution passed at the UN Human Rights Council last week.

Keappaapulavu and the airstrip of the LTTE

The locality of Keappaapulavu and the former airstrip of the LTTE

Chronology:

03.04.14 People of Keappapulavu demand Gotabhaya to hand ov..

03.04.14 SL military accelerates forced ‘resettlement’ perm..

Tamil traders in North protest against invading illegal salesmen from South

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 April 2014, 16:55 GMT]
Jaffna District Chamber of Commerce and Tamil National Cultural Association on Thursday staged a half-day protest against invading illegal salesmen from South, who outcompete the native traders with the backing of the occupying Sinhala military. The protest drew the support of civil activists, Tamil politicians and the public as the provincial council and the civic bodies run by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Municipal Council administration run by the EPDP have been powerless in controlling the illegal activity which has also worsened the anti-social crimes in the peninsula. The street vendors from South market their goods at the doorsteps of the shops owned by Tamil traders in the city at cheaper rates, but without any warranties, the organisers told TamilNet.

The occupying Sri Lankan military and the State system provide all necessary backing to the invading street vendors. Many of these salesmen stay in the Sri Lankan military cantonments in Jaffna and Vanni.

The Sri Lankan Police does not entertain the complaints made by the Tamil business owners.

The street vendors from South have also been behind many of the anti-social activities in Jaffna and Vanni.

Tamil traders say they have been affected by the downfall of the Colombo-centric economy, harassments by the SL military and more than 30% of their day-to-day business activity has been severely affected by the street vendors from the South.

Many politicians, including the NPC councillors Ananthi Sasitharan and Gajeetheepan were present at the protest.

The organisers had extended invitation to the Chief Minister CV Wigneswaran to conclude their fast on the protest day. But, the NPC CM avoided his presence and sent his employees to conclude the fast. Angered by the act, the organisers ended their fast in front of the elected representatives, who were present at the site, news sources in the city said.

The protest was taking place in front of the Veerasingham Hall in Jaffna.

In the meantime, the EPDP, which controls the municipal administration, has leased out the Veerasingham Hall to a prominent businessman in the South to open a mega sale during the traditional New Year season this month.

SL military . permanently seizing lands from Tamils

SL military accelerates forced ‘resettlement’ permanently seizing lands from Tamils

[TamilNet, Thursday, 03 April 2014, 06:16 GMT]
Despite the continuous refusal from the people, the occupying Sri Lanka Army is forcefully settling Tamil people from Keappaapulavu by constructing 121 ‘sample’ houses at a jungle locality called Sooriyapuram. The houses are to be handed over in a military function scheduled to be attended by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the SL presidential sibling and defence secretary of the occupying State, who has also instructed its military Establishment to get rid of the complaints from uprooted people from Valikaamam North in Jaffna district by forcing them to accept ‘alternative’ housing schemes being offered at quarry lands in Kaangkeasan-thu'rai after permanently seizing their fertile lands from them in 24 village divisions. Also, people from Champoor in Moothoor East in Trincomalee district, currently staying in the so-called welfare camps are being harassed to accept forced resettlement.

SL military has seized thousands of acres of lands in Keappaapulavu near Nanthik-kadal for the establishment of a Sinhala Military Zone.

The latest move of forcing people of Keappapulavu into a jungle pocket comes after the USA and UK dropped the ‘de-militarisation’ demand in the resolution passed at the UN Human Rights Council last week.

The people from Keappaa-pulavu, who have been staging protests demanding resettlement at their own lands and appealed directly to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay during her last visit to North and East, are now being forced to accept a military constructed housing scheme at gun point.

The location of fertile Keappaa-pulavu

In the meantime, the newly installed genocidal commander of the Sri Lanka Army, who has been trained and awarded by the US military Establishment in 2012, is planning to seize further lands owned by Tamils who are yet to resettle in their lands and provide these lands to those demanding resettlement in their own villages in the former ‘High Security Zone’ in Valikaamam North, that has been seized by the SL military which is transforming the resourceful lands into a Sinhala Military Zone (SMZ).

As reported earlier in January, the SL military has been constructing an arch on Palaali Road, which will be the future entrance to the SMZ.

After the photo was released, the SL military has silently removed the notice board at the locality, people from Vasaavi'laan told TamilNet.

Chronology:

03.04.14 People of Keappapulavu demand Gotabhaya to hand ov..

03.04.14 SL military accelerates forced ‘resettlement’ perm..

வியாழன், 3 ஏப்ரல், 2014

UN wants cooperation despite Colombo’s rejection of Geneva resolution: ICP

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 02 April 2014, 19:55 GMT]
Having Sri Lanka’s genocidal military commander Major General Shavendra Silva as an adviser to UN Peacekeeping and giving more significance to Syria and North Korea than to the crimes Sri Lanka, the United Nations Secretary General and officials under him are encouraging Sri Lanka to work with the UN Human Rights Council’s mechanisms in Geneva despite Colombo categorically stating that it will not cooperate with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) after the resolution passed last week in Geneva. Mr Ban was recalling the commitments made to him on accountability by the SL President Mahinda Rajapaksa in their “Joint Statement of 2009” through a “pre-prepared answer” to ICP’s question on Tuesday. In the meantime, Colombo has extended an invitation to Mr Ban Ki-moon in May 2014 to visit the island, the ICP further reported.

“ Is this human rights, or politics? How long and how will Ban's UN's strange relationship with Sri Lanka continue?” questions Matthew Russell Lee of the ICP in a report filed on innercitypress.com on Tuesday.

On March 28, Ban Ki-moon mentioned his "Rights Up Front" plan, without mentioning its roots in his UN's failure in Sri Lanka, and without taking any questions on this, he writes.

“Ban Ki-moon ended up giving Pillay only half of a second term; the ‘Rights Up Front’ plan he belatedly announced, specifically as a response to what was found to be the UN's ‘systemic failure’ on Sri Lanka, he now presents without any reference to Sri Lanka”, he further notes.

Mr Russel Lee, in his reporting, also questions why the term ‘demilitarization’ was dropped from the UNHRC draft, while UK stressed for an investigation and the USA cited ‘undue military influence’.

“When the marked up Sri Lanka resolution was tabled, its eight operative paragraph appeared to some to simply kick the can down the road again, asking for another update from the High Commissioner for Human Rights -- who soon won't be Navi Pillay anymore,” Russel Lee observes.

“It is noteworthy that alongside its work on the Sri Lanka issue in Geneva, at the UN in New York where the UK has a Permanent Five seat on the Security Council that it uses on such issues as Syria and now Ukraine, the UK has by comparison done little,” he further writes posing another question: “While David Cameron did use the CHOGM in Sri Lanka to use raises, recently the UK co-sponsored a Commonwealth event in New York with Sri Lanka, without a word. What explains this?”

The ICP journalist also observes that the US State Department had downgraded the significance of its address on the resolution, which was scheduled to be made by Ambassador Samantha Power, by giving it to Sarah Sewall, the under secretary of state for civilian security, democracy, and human rights.

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SL military ‘punishes’ families opposing forced conscription of Tamil women

[TamilNet, Tuesday, 01 April 2014, 23:48 GMT]
More than 30 soldiers and intelligence personnel of the occupying Sri Lankan military, who came in 5 vehicles, rounded up the village of Ka'nukkea'ni in Tha'n'neer-oottu in Mu'l'liyava'lai of Mullaiththeevu district on Monday and arrested 28-year-old brother of a woman as the woman had refused to join the SL military. A Sri Lankan military commander was exerting pressure on the two survivors of a family, which lost both the parents and a sister in the genocidal onslaught on Vanni in 2009, to enlist the remaining girl. The ‘arrests’ come as the girl declined to enlist herself and her brother too opposed the SL military, news sources in Mullaiththeevu told TamilNet.

The brother, 28-year-old Balachandran Vijayarooban, who has been taken away by the SL military is a family man.

The SL military told the family that his sister was living under ‘poverty line’ and that they were offering the job as a means of ensuring livelihood of the family. When they collectively declined to accept the offer, the brother and another relative were taken away.

The SL military didn't give any document explaining the arrest.

Both the Sri Lankan Police and the Sri Lanka Red Cross (SLRC) refused to register the complaints of the ‘arrests’.

The relatives of the family said there was no place where they could complain.

புதன், 2 ஏப்ரல், 2014

இலக்கிய வீதி : மறுவாசிப்பில் க.நா.சு. ilakkiya veethi function: ka.naa.su.

மூவர் விடுதலை: உறுதி செய்தது உச்ச நீதிமன்றம்.

இராசீவு கொலை வழக்கில் சிக்க வைக்கப்பட்ட மூவர் விடுதலை: உறுதி செய்தது உச்ச நீதிமன்றம்.

இராசீவு கொலை வழக்கில், பேரறிவாளன், முருகன், சாந்தன், ஆகிய மூவரின் தூக்குத் தண்டனையை நீக்கியதற்கு எதிரான மத்திய அரசின் மறு ஆய்வு மனுவை உச்ச நீதிமன்றம் தள்ளுபடி செய்தது.

முருகன், சாந்தன், பேரறிவாளன் ஆகியோரின் தூக்குத் தண்டனையை உச்ச நீதிமன்றம் நீக்கி வைத்தது.

23 ஆண்டுகளாக சிறையில் இருக்கும் அவர்களை, உரிய சட்ட நடைமுறைகளைப் பின்பற்றி விடுவிப்பதற்குத் தமிழக அரசு நடவடிக்கை எடுக்கலாம் என்றும் நீதிமன்றம் கருத்துத் தெரிவித்தது.
இதற்கு எதிராகப் பல்வேறு காரணங்களைக் கூறி மத்திய அரசு சீராய்வு மனுவை உச்சநீதிமன்றத்தில் பதிந்தது.

இதனை உசாவி வந்த உச்ச நீதிமன்றத் தலைமை நீதிபதி சதாசிவம் தலைமையிலான அமர்வு, மத்திய அரசின் மனுவைத் தள்ளுபடி செய்து இன்று உத்தரவு பிறப்பித்தது.

மத்திய அரசின் மறு ஆய்வு மனுவை மிகவும் கவனமாக ஆய்வுசெய்ததாகவும் அந்த மனுவில் சரியான காரணங்கள் ஏதும் இல்லதால் தள்ளுபடி செய்யப்படுவதாகவும் உச்ச நீதிமன்றம் தனது உத்தரவில் தெரிவித்துள்ளது.
தமிழக அரசு விரைவில் நடவடிக்கை எடுத்து மூவரையும் விடுதலை செய்யும்! விடுதலை ஆகப் போகும் மூவருக்கும் நடுநிலையோடு நல்ல தீர்ப்பை வழங்கிய நீதிபதிகளுக்கும் வாழ்த்துகள்!

செவ்வாய், 1 ஏப்ரல், 2014

SL military rule stepped up in North, wartime restrictions re-introduced

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 March 2014, 19:44 GMT]
Clamping down on civilian life in the North, the occupying Sri Lankan military has re-introduced pass system for fishermen in the North to access their seas, putting up check posts on the roads, dawn to dusk search operations and military patrols of armed soldiers in the Northern province, especially targeting coastal areas. In the meantime, the occupying Sri Lankan military has ‘arrested’ at least 44 Eelam Tamils between 07 March and 27 March, news sources in Jaffna said. Most of them have been arrested in abduction style. The iron fist control on the civilian life seeks to silence all activism and threatens the witnesses who have been prepared to witness against the genocidal crimes by the Sri Lankan State, rights activists in Jaffna told TamilNet. Civilian movement was at standstill during the nights as if a curfew has been clamped down at several locations of the peninsula.

On Sunday, Sri Lankan military officers instructed the fishermen socieity representatives to get all the fishermen to register their boats and obtain passes from the military in order to access the sea.

Thousands of Sinhala soldiers were deployed from Tho'ndaimaan-aa'ru to Vadamaraadchi East, carrying out search operations, checking identity cards of the people on the streets and putting up check-posts.

Similar instructions were given also to those who engage in fishing in the Jaffna lagoon. Search operations were also carried out in Kurunakar area.

SL soldiers have taken positions at fishing huts, market places and junctions along the coastal belt.

All the fishermen entering the sea will be checked and all those returning to the shore will also be checked with the passes provided to them by the SL military, the fishermen have been told.

The house of a former Sea Tiger commander, who has been released after SL military ‘rehabilitation’ was subjected to search by the SL military throughout the whole day on Sunday at Manthikai in Vadamaraadchi. Nobody was at home during the search.

The Sri Lankan soldiers have manned check-posts on A9 main road. Elephant Pass and Oamanthai points, which were almost dormant since the Provincial Council elections, have now become a full-fledged check points as they were during the times of war.

Patrol groups, each consisting 7-9 armed soldiers, were deployed on all junctions and key localities.

The occupying SL soldiers snatched the identity cards of the civilians who were traveling on the streets during the night on 27 March. They were asked to come to nearby SL military camps on the following day to obtain their identity cards back.

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Following are some of the details of the reported arrests in March. Several other families and relatives have refused to provide the details of those who have been detained or taken away by the SL military intelligence operatives who call themselves as investigation officers from the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of the SL Police.

27 March 2014
The TID has arrested a 35-year-old man, Sinnathurai Sreekanthan, a father of one and a former LTTE member, who has been released after SL military ‘rehabilitation’. The arrest has taken place at Udaiyaar-kaddu.

A driver, employed in the Northern Provincial Council Ministry of Education, who has been recently transferred from Jaffna to Mullaith-theevu was arrested at Vavuniyaa by the TID.

26 March 2014
35-year-old Mohan Kethees, a family man from Tharumapuram in Ki’linochchi, currently residing at Oaddu-madam in Jaffna, was detained by the TID. He was released on Friday by the Court.

25 March 2014
SL military indiscriminately assaulted four Tamil youths, 19-year-old Kamalathas Rajendram, 24-year-old Salojan Augustin, 25-year-old Suren and 25-year-old Najeetharan. They were taken away by the occupying Sinhala soldiers and handed over to TID for further ‘interrogations’. The youth were from Koozhaa-mu’rippu, Oddu-chuddaan in Mullaiththeevu district.

TID operatives detained 28-year-old Amuthakaran Thurairasa from Vanni, working at Kommaanthu’rai, Uduppiddi in Vadamaraadchi. He was employed at a pharmacy run by his brother. White van squads were searching for him for a few days and he had been instructed to be present at the TID interrogation office at Naavalar Road in Jaffna. Now, he has been sent to Colombo for further investigations, according to the SL Police.

22 March 2014
Kanthalyan from Mannaar, a trader selling iron, was arrested by TID operatives during a search operation by the SL military at Vaddukkoaddai in Jaffna.

21 March 2014
The occupying Sri Lanka Navy soldiers arrested a fisherman from Ki’linochchi at Vangkaalaip-paadu in Mannaar and handed him over to the Sri Lankan TID operatives. He was residing in Chi’ruth-thoappu and was engaged in fishing at Vangkaa’laip-paadu.

A couple from Jaffna Mr Loganathan and Mrs Maheswary Loganathan, with their two kids, a 6-year-old boy and a 8-year-old girl, were detained by the TID from their residence at Sreeramapura Housing Scheme in Vavuniyaa.

20 March 2014
TID operatives who came in a white van brutally attacked 37-year-old Jeyaramesh Sabaratnam, a fish trader and a father of two, at Vettilaik-kea’ni in Vadamaraadchi East and ‘arrested’ him, Mary Canista, his wife has complained.

18 March 2014
34-year-old Jaseeharan Mylvaganam, a disabled ex-LTTE member, now employed at a bakery, was arrested by TID operatives at his house at Udaiyaar-kaddu in Mullaiththeevu district.

16 March 2014
A former LTTE member, his wife and children aged 6 and 10, have been detained by the Sri Lankan TID at Moogkilaa’ru in Mullaiththeevu.

13 March 2014
55-year-old Jeyakumari Balendran and her 13-year-old daughter Vipooshika Balendran were taken away after setting up an encounter-styled search operation at Tharumapuram in Ki’linochchi district. Jeyakumari, who has lost 2 men in her family was searching for the remaining son who is allegedly in the Sri Lankan military custody after the war in Vanni. She has been an activist mobilising the kith and kin of the missing persons in recent times.

Chronology:

31.03.14 SL military rule stepped up in North, wartime rest..

27.03.14 SL military detains 28 Tamils in 2 weeks

New Delhi imperialism’s show of ‘culture’ in Jaffna

[TamilNet, Monday, 31 March 2014, 05:15 GMT]
The full moon day that falls in the traditional solar month of March–April is a major festival day for Saivaite Eezham Tamils as well as Tamils in Tamil Nadu. Known as Pangkuni Uththaram, it marks the grand finale of the annual festival, including the car festival, of all the Siva temples. The folk of Tamil Nadu and the Up-Country Tamils of Tamil Nadu origin in the island celebrate it as Kaaman festival, marking Siva reducing Kaaman (cupid) into ashes. It is a major festival for the Up-Country Tamils. But this year, the New Delhi Establishment’s Consulate General in Jaffna, brought in a ‘cultural’ concept altogether new to Tamils in the island, by introducing Holi and smearing colours on that day.

What was the ‘New Delhi imperialism’ or ‘Hindi/ Hindutva imperialism’ part, conspicuous in the show of India in Jaffna, was its press release explaining the festival, which was totally ignorant of the pluralism of its own cultural heritage.

New Delhi’s Consulate General in Jaffna seems to be having no idea at all on the pluralistic ways in which the day is celebrated.

Press statement by CGI in English

The press release said that as “the liveliest of all Hindu festivals” it is observed all over North India, and added, “celebrations in Mathura and the small towns of Braj Bhoomi, the land of Sri Krishna, are spectacular.”

Press statement by CGI in Tamil

Smearing colour on all those who were present and all those who were passing by, the Consulate General said, “Sri Lankan students who had joined the “India Corner” at the Consulate also participated in this event and witnessed this colourful festival.”

Boxes of Heineken cans were seen at the celebration venue.

The ‘liveliest Hindu’ festival celebrated by the New Delhi Establishment’s Consulate General in Jaffna with the serving of Heineken.

Tamil Nadu prisoner under Colombo’s PTA custody begins hunger strike

[TamilNet, Sunday, 30 March 2014, 10:02 GMT]
An Indian citizen from Tamil Nadu, who has been jailed in Colombo for five years, has launched hunger-strike unto death demanding his fate known to the world, after he has been subjected to severe harassment by the Sri Lankan ‘Terrorist Investigation Division’ and the prison authorities, reliable sources told TamilNet on Sunday. The victim, John Peter Vijayendran, is a political prisoner, who has been jailed in Colombo’s Magazine prison and recently transferred to a prison in Negombo, the sources further said.

Mr John Peter Vijayendran has been in the Sri Lankan prison for 5 years under the notorious ‘Prevention of Terrorism’ act charges. He has started the fast-unto death protest demanding his fate known to the world, especially to the government of Tamil Nadu, the sources further said.

John Peter was being harassed by the Sri Lankan ‘Terrorist Investigation Division’ operatives and the SL prison authorities who blamed that he had been in touch the outside world from the Magazine prison.

On Friday, Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a ‘gesture of goodwill’ towards the New Delhi Establishment for abstaining to vote on UNHRC resolution, instructed the release of Tamil Nadu fishermen detained in Colombo’s prisons.

OHCHR investigation sabotaged by several quarters

[TamilNet, Saturday, 29 March 2014, 10:16 GMT]
“An intrusive investigation has so far not yielded genuine reconciliation, and a life of dignity and self-respect for people anywhere. Sri Lanka can’t be any different,” said The Hindu in an editorial on Saturday, shedding crocodile tears for the dignity and self respect of Eezham Tamils and joining the forces that are determined to sabotage even a weak international investigation at the outset. The freedom of the investigation on the ground has already been ditched by the US withdrawing the demilitarisation part of the resolution, and the international weight as well as the result yielding capacity of the investigation has considerably been wrecked by New Delhi abstaining from the voting and openly declaring against the investigation, commented Tamil activists for alternative politics in the island.

Unlike Vijay Nambiar and Kamalesh Sharma in the international organisations, who were taking the line of serving New Delhi’s agenda on Eezham Tamils and have brought in questions on the credibility of the organisations they serve, Ms Navi Pillai, despite her limitations, is on a refreshing path in rejuvenating hopes on international forums.

Against the backdrop of the stand taken by the existing New Delhi regime, and media in India such as The Hindu, peoples of India, especially the people of Tamil Nadu have to think of ways how the UNHRC mission could be strengthened to bring in positive results in the delivery of justice.

As The Hindu implies, internal investigation and internal measures are an ideal course, if they could work. Perhaps that is what peoples of India and their civil institutions have to embark upon about the Establishment in India and media empires that have contributed and are contributing to genocide.

External Links:

The Hindu:

A mandate for the UNHRC

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